According to court documents, a violent home invasion in Slaton ended in an officer-involved shooting after two men forced their way into a house early one morning. One of them, 17-year-old Alex Adalid Melgar-Matheu, was shot and killed by police. The other, 21-year-old Alex Matheu Martinez, survived and was later arrested. The Texas Rangers were called in, because when things go sideways in West Texas, that’s the “break glass” option.
The victim told police she and her daughter were at home when they heard banging at the door. When it opened, both men came inside, knives in hand. One allegedly held the mother down with a knife to her throat while the other attacked the daughter, striking her repeatedly and holding a butcher knife to her neck. Just your standard morning chaos, apparently.
With everyone else either attacking, pleading, or blacked-out drunk, the daughter managed to do what modern society has trained us all to do in a crisis: outsource the problem to technology. She said, “Siri, call 911.” And somehow, that worked better than anything else happening in the house.
Martinez later admitted to forcing the door open and having a knife but claimed he couldn’t remember much else due to his level of intoxication—a defense so common it should probably have its own checkbox on the arrest form. He’s now sitting in the Lubbock County Detention Center on $85,000 in bonds, while court documents remain oddly quiet about the actual shooting itself.
So once again, the real hero is a teenager, a phone, and Apple’s voice assistant—because when adults completely lose the plot, at least Siri still knows how to dial 911.